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Famed for her
Mary Russell mysteries and novels featuring Kate Martinelli,
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His existence shattered by the Great War, Bennett Grey is investigated by an American agent who thinks he may be useful for protecting national security. U.S. Bureau of Investigation agent Harris Stuyvesant's first inclination is to let his fists do the talking. But he's well out of his jurisdiction, having traveled across the Atlantic to dig up clues on an Englishman he believes responsible for terrorist acts in the States. After turning up a lead that draws him from London far into the English countryside, Harris meets Bennett Grey, a shell-shocked veteran whose war wounds left him with a unique talent that may hold the key to cracking the case.

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Great characters, but plot is a bit of a jumble

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Bennett Gray, the "touchstone" of the title, is meant to be a main character and is surprisingly sidelined in the action. He's there, tagging along at a number of points, but not really part of the action if that makes sense. This is a disappointment as he's more interesting than some of the others, but it also makes for a bit of awkwardness as you wonder just what the point of him is at times. His unusual skill in heightened awareness or rapid cognition aren't really used in the "dectection" of the mystery, but rather as a secondary plot.

Lead dectector, Harry Stuyvesant, is also complex and likable, plus there's a good, if somewhat obvious, villain.

The weak point here is the plot. Unfortunately, the end doesn't really surprise. This is in part because the lead suspect is a) announced as such from the start, and b) gets very little screen time. And there are very few other options as to who it might be. The main plot detours from it's original focus, and the secondary plot doesn't tie in well, so it's a bit of a jumble in places.

In the end, you want to know more about the characters, want to know what happens to them next and really want a better book for them ??? all of which is happening as King says "The book I'll be writing this year [2012] is set in Paris, 1929, and is about some of the characters from Touchstone."

Jefferson Mays was a fine narrator, though something felt "off" to me about his voice for Bennett Gray. Nothing specifically wrong with it, but just not how I "hear" Bennett. And his voice for American Stuyvesant was a good effort, but sounded stilted especially with Harry's constant use of slang.

Very good story, a little slow in places.

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Narrator Jefferson Mays did a very good job with the material. He has a strong masculine voice, but was still able to do the female voices convincingly. He carried off the various British accents very well.

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Give me patience.

Laurie R. King is a brilliant writer

I love Ms. King's writing in all her different series. She is an intelligent writer whose characters and storylines are well developed and compelling. This recording was very good and I completely lost myself in it. I often recommend any and all of her books to people as I feel she is one of the most consistently good writers out there. The audiobooks have also been very good and a lovely way to revisit these works.

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Laurie R King's book, as in several of her other books, centres around the First World War. It takes place in 1926, just before the General Strike, but all her characters have been affected by the War. Her main character is an American Bureau of Investigation agent, in England to track down an anarchist bomber. It is a story involving the rich and radical, with country house weekends, beautiful and dedicated women, a deeply injured officer, a really unpleasant English bureaucrat and a charismatic supporter of the working class.
All read beautifully by Jefferson Mays.